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@anayatbaig
گلگت بلتستان کے تعلق رکھنے والےایک غریب سپاہی(مہتر جان 7اے کے رجمنٹ) کو اواران (بلوچستان) میں شہید کر دیا گیا۔ ریاست کا بالائی طبقہ اپنی مفادات کی جنگ میں نچلے طبقے کے لوگوں کو آمنے سامنے لاکھڑا کرتا ہے، ہمیں اس پالیسی کو سمجھ کر اپنے محنت کش طبقے کی صفوں میں اتحاد پیدا کرنے کی ضرورت ہے۔ محکوم قومیتوں کی یکجہتی - زندہ باد!
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سرمایہ دارانہ ترقی کا المیہ - زمین بمقابلہ آسمان
زمین کی بھوک کا کوئی حل اج تک نہیں نکل سکا مگر انسان اب نظام شمسی سے بھی باہر پہنچ چکا ہے اور زندگی کے آثار ڈھونڈ رہا ہے۔ اب کل ہی یہ خبر آئی ہے کہ سائنسدانوں کی ایک ٹیم نے سات ایکزو پلینٹس (نظام شمسی سے باہر کے سیارے) دریافت کئے ہیں جن میں سے تین میں پانی موجود ہے، پس زندگی بھی ممکن ہے بالکل ایسے ہی جیسےمریخ (مارس) میں سب ممکن تھا۔
دوسری طرف آج بھی بین الاقوامی مالیاتی اداروں کا خود یہی کہنا ہے کہ اس سیارے یعنی کہ زمین میں آدھی سے زیادہ آبادی خطِ غربت سے نیچے زندگی گزارتی ہے (اور جن کو ایک وقت کا کھانا تک مشکل سے میسر ہے) ۔ کیا آپکو نہیں لگتا کہ ترقی کے اس ماڈل میں کوئی خاص مسلہ ہے کیونکہ اس ترقی میں ہماری بھوک، افلاس اور بیروزگاری کو ختم کرنے کا کوئی حل موجود نہیں مگر دوسرے آسمانوں، سیاروں تک پہنچنےکا فارمولا اور وسائل دونوں موجود ہیں - اس نظام میں ترقی انسانی ضروریات کی بنیاد پر نہیں بلکہ منافع میں بڑھوتری اور سرمایے کی اجارہ داری قائم رکھنے کے لئے ہوتی ہے۔ میں ایسی ترقی کی صحیح معنوں میں ترقی ماننے سے انکاری ہوں جس کی بنیاد میری ضرورت نہیں بلکہ آپ کا منافع ہو۔
We stumbled upon this beautiful song on women empowerment sung by none other than the “Nightingale of India”, Lata Mangeshkar with A.R. Rahman. Kapil Sibal has penned down the soulful lyrics of this melodious song.
Goes without saying, the song is an immersive experience; you can just plug in your headphones, close your eyes and experience the magic.
As an ideology of resistance to the organised power of the state, especially in explicitly colonial contexts, it has served the cause of freedom more than any other idea of political community — the mix of nationalism and Marxism found in the 20th-century emancipatory movements led by larger-than-life figures such as Mao, Castro and Cabral are particularly noteworthy.
Dr. Asim Sajjad Akhtar to DAWN
Edhi Died, but what fueled his ideology?
"I mostly read articles on communism. After reading those articles, a feeling of hatred kept rising in my heart for a particular class of people who were the main causes of poverty in the world, they were the ones creating problems and hurdles and no one was doing anything to stop this from happening. I have been in Pakistan for the past 60 years, no one is ready to talk about the problems here, I was young and uneducated and I didn’t have the resources to make a change or revolutionize the system, but I had a passion to help those in need and help them get their rights. Even today, I am still helping them as much as I possibly can, and in every possible way."
On Recent Brutality of Indian Army in Kashmir!
For the Awami Workers Party, this means that anyone who fails to support the right to self-determination of *both* Kashmir and Balochistan is no friend of the colonised. Selective solidarity is not solidarity at all. Instead, it reproduces the self-interested policies of the very colonial-military nexus that keeps places like Kashmir and Balochistan in a never-ending state of exceptional violence. And, it feeds a jingoistic patriotism on both sides of the border, whose supporters will never be interested in seeing the end of violence. It is only when Kashmiris, Baloch, Sindhis, Assamese, Gilgitis, Baltis, and others join forces with the peasants of Okara and the Naxals in India, that we can hope to see an end to the brutal violence that we are all subject to.
The Awami Workers Party stands in solidarity with colonised peoples everywhere, be they in Kashmir, Balochistan, FATA, Gilgit-Baltistan, Assam, Palestine, or elsewhere, as they resist colonial-military violence. We call upon Kashmiri and Baloch to join hands – with one another, other struggles, and the Left that supports their resistance – so they can stand in solidarity against the colonial-military nexus that is keeping them both in a state of subjugation.
We Own Qandeel Baloch!
She chose to live and love, sing and dance, laugh and play, as she pleased. In her embrace of herself, without regrets, she lived the life that she wanted to live, only to be punished for being herself. In this, she was radical: Radically different, radically bold, radically political. And in this, we, the Awami Workers Party, find a comrade and a fellow feminist, and we salute her for her bravery and courage.
A Quick Note to our ‘Male Allies’
This statement has been released by Aurat Raj, a radical left feminist group.
We see you, tripping all over yourselves trying to make the next viral facebook status/tweet/thinkpiece/comment on Qandeel Baloch, gleeful at the opportunity to be the next best feminist since Justin Trudeau, to lecture us on our oppression and theorise on our condition. A few quick points for you:
1) PASS THE MIC. Pass the mic to the women in your lives, on your timelines and newsfeeds, the ones who taught you this feminist vocabulary you drop, the ones who fought it out with you when you were (and are) arrogant and resistant, the ones you never cite, the ones whose intellectual labours are systematically erased and whose intellectual labours you appropriate. Share their posts. Retweet their tweets. Take up less space. The world does not need any more of your mental masturbations. When you feel so obligated to type something out – ask yourself, has a Pakistani woman already said this? Why don’t I just quote her? And while I’m at it why dont I just go on over to her wall and show her some appreciation and support? When a journalist approaches you for a quote – redirect them to a woman. Redistribute your space. Pass the mic.
2) We know you are all brilliant snowflakes and have a lot to say and we know exactly where you could be of use. We are being harassed, abused, threatened, attacked and silenced by men on a regular basis and in escalating levels all over social media and IRL. Intervene in these spaces. Walk the talk buddies. Do this not-so-sexy work that drains and destroys and kills us every day. Take the risks we take every day. Make your way on over to public pakistani feminist pages on social media and look at the comments. You can have a very real role here by responding and talking back to the men who constantly, aggressively try to drown out our voices and our message. But that’s a waste of time because where are YOUR pay-offs, right? Doesn’t matter if these men are MORE LIKELY to listen to and seriously engage with other cis-men – if it’s not visible, it doesn’t do much for your popularity, not enough chances of being quoted, re-tweeted and published. But here’s the deal – this is where you can actually leverage your male privilege and create legit push-back. Get your hands dirty – we want to be able to count on you, where it matters.
3) Stop lecturing us on how to understand or address our own oppression. For eg: We’re quite sick of men pointing out that women are women’s worst enemies. They’re not – patriarchy is structured to pit women against each other. Stop perpetuating this trope to evade responsibility. Don’t engage us in pedantic debates or issue arrogant correctives or subject us to your theorisations on what our resistance should look like. All this mansplaining is a waste of everyone’s energies. We are afraid and exhausted, and debating with you is very low on our list of priorities. Listen to us. And again, if you have so much to say – say it to those who are harassing, abusing, threatening, silencing, lecturing us. Say it to your family members, your colleagues, your drinking buddies, the guy sitting next to you on the metro. Say it to those who are threatening and abusing us on social media.
Signed
Aurat Raj
I am sorry Qandeel! Let me shamefully confess that when you were alive, I was also among many out there who judged you by own conditioned and conservative values. I am sorry I couldn't resist my cultural conditioning then, but in your death, there was a lesson for me, rather for many like me.
Anayat Baig